I haven’t been proud to be catholic in a while (when I do claim religion I have to remind people I have done all the sacraments minus marriage, anointment).

And then something like this happens. Amazing.

razetora:

Catholic Priest Father Geoff Farrow when he handcuffed himself to the White House to protest the fact that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell has not yet been repealed as promised, calling it the “evil policy that strips the LGBTQ community of its human dignity.”

See his blog here: http://fathergeofffarrow.blogspot.com/

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Personal motto

Be kind.

Never leaves home without

“A book, I hate wasting time waiting, so always have a book to read in case I get stuck waiting somewhere.”

Style icon

“Thandie Newton, I’ve never seen her have a bad style moment.”

First thing in the morning

“I meditate.”

Last thing before bed

“I meditate and give thanks for at least 5 things that have happened during the day.”

READ MORE AT THE VOGUE ITALIA / BLACK SITE.

After reading this article/interview in PaperMag, I have decided that I do not have to resolve this “real me vs fashion bitch” conflict, why not be everything?
Is it possible to be able to write ‘real content’, whilst simultaneously writing fashion editorial pieces, and even fluff articles?
Sally Singer did and still does.

Here’s an excerpt:

SS: My job at these magazines was always about bridging the gap between features and fashion — to make it clear that fashion is an expression of culture.

Paper: Did you find that difficult to do? The fashion world is often a fairly narrow and not super integrated world.
 
SS: Fashion can be exceedingly insular and concerned with that which is visually new right now. The girl of the moment, the lip of the moment, the eyebrow of the moment, the hemline of the moment — here today, gone tomorrow — sometimes it seems a bit indulgent and decadent.  But at the end of the day, there is a way to speak to and excite many different audiences at whatever level they happen to be in the hierarchy of aesthetic-mindedness. There’s a way to make the fashion universe realize that the world itself is interesting and stimulating. And there’s a way to make the big world realize the show of fashion has relevance and that the visual stimulation that emerges from it is pretty cool, too. I thought about this all the time at Vogue. I’d say to Anna [Wintour], “Well, this is one for the fashion freaks, this is the one that’s going to get  the industry excited, and this  is one for the reader.” If in a shoot we didn’t have something that made the fashion world, the stylists and the designers know we were at the top of our game, then we’d lost the lay reader.

Paper: Why can’t you just be who you are? Is a bling-y person going to look wrong just because Jil Sander is the trend? What if the next big thing was suddenly  a hard-edged geometric Mugler style? I just couldn’t imagine a casual, soft-looking person like you starting to wear architectural big shoulders, because that’s not who you are. So why should we?

SS: No one says we should. People who are interested in style — designers, stylists or the girl or boy on the street — get an idea and fixate on it, and for their whole lives, that’s their ideal. For someone from my generation  — West Coast, basically raised in the ’70s — my style ideal is probably a pair of jeans and a white T-shirt. Being very “done” or wearing a lot of makeup is very chic for others, but it will never be me. Yet every season, there’s a way to connect your personal aesthetic with something new. You intuitively think, “I want something new that updates who I am, but at the end of the day I’m still myself.”
      When people ask me what they should wear for evening, I say, “If you’re most comfortable in your pajamas, then wear pajamas. Do not put on a ball gown, ‘cause you’re not going to look good in it.” If your favorite thing is to wear party dresses because as a child every day you wanted to wear your fairy princess dress, then always wear fairy princess dresses. The smart person every season twists it just a little to register that they’re part of the conversation. It’s fun to update what is in your closet. That’s why people who only wear pale blue button-front shirts, which I happen to love, buy new ones. They serially buy these things.

Read the whole article here.

This video came on the big screen whilst I was at the gym running some ridiculously high number on the treadmill. One foot did not go in front of the other, I tripped on my sneakers which was not tied on tight… As usual. I slid backwards and had to lean, reach and grab on to the handle bars to save my poor little life.

I think everyone was staring, maybe they were worried, or laughing?

I don’t know, All I could see was the big screen. Clearly, it’s a continuation of BangBangBang the song that I had just been running too!

HOLY SHIT Mark Ronson actually looks hotter with that ridiculous peroxide job!!!

Does this mean I can finally dye my hair blue?

Read this in a day.

First of all, I admit it, I’m one of those people… The BEE stalkers, who read, reread and quote random segments of his books.
I even made a huge effort to go see him read during this book tour.

Less Than Zero was the first BEE book I read, I liked it a lot, because ‘I could relate to it’, and it influenced the next hundred or so books I read, like Twelve which I read immediately after.
I remember thinking Less Than Zero was a bit annoying, not the story, the way it was written. Like a news report, very matter of fact, not a lot of inner monologue, but that wasn’t too bad, I was the right age to get it, I felt everyone who liked it already had the necessary amount of assumed background knowledge, teenage minds. This was confirmed when I found out BEE wrote it at 21.

His other books, were brilliantly written. He was clearly older, so were his characters, they all had dimension, depth.

So what the hell was he thinking going back to that Less Than Zero style?
He could have easily written exactly this same story immediately following Less than Zero, it felt like he decided to chuck half his brain and write like a teenage idiot. Maybe he did and has been lying to us all for years (oh yes I’m starting this rumour).
If you have not read Less than Zero, if you did not read it at the right time, this book will annoy you. You will have absolutely no idea why any of the characters do any of the things they do. None. You are just told what they are doing, it will not make sense to those who don’t already ‘know the story’.

I feel betrayed and lied to. I feel like I have just been served cheap supermarket sushi at Nobu just because they can.